Enabling FASP in Google Cloud Instance Firewall Rules

Google compute cloud instances are protected by a firewall which does not allow the Aspera FASP udp channel by default. You can use an internal tool 'gcloud', built into the CentOS image, to open up the firewall. In order to use Gcloud utility, you need to provide your image access to gcloud on first boot. This is one of the advanced configurations available when provisioning.

To enable this, issue the following command from within the affected instance: